Historical Sketch

　Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology was started in May, 1949 as a university under the new system, incorporating Tokyo College of Agriculture and Forestry and Tokyo Textile College.
　Then, there were 3 departments both in the faculty of agriculture and technology. In the process of development of the University, new divisions had been established and they were reorganized and integrated in the present four divisions and a veterinary division in the faculty of agriculture and the present six divisions in the faculty of technology in 1998.

　The University has been improving educational and research environment in order to correspond to the progress of the contemporary science and the needs of the society. In addition to the two faculties, there are a graduate school of technology (doctoral course), a graduate school of agriculture (master's course), the united graduate school of agricultural science (doctoral course for latter three years only) and the graduate school of bio-applications and systems engineering (doctoral course). The system for education and research is being refined to rear capable people who will meet the needs of every field, and to contribute to the development of technology.

　


　This monument was built in the
commemoration of Duke Toshimichi Ohkubo,
who endeavoured much to establish
Komaba Agricultural School, the origin of
our university, in front of the main building
of the present faculty of agriculture in 1941.

　


　The Laboratory of Silkworm Disease affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, one of the University roots, which has become a part of the faculty of Technology and Agriculture after many changes, was built at the present Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (the present location of Teikoku Hotel) in 1884.This old fashioned bulletin board was planted at this historic place, the cradleland of the University, in October, 1992.

　

Year
Historical Sketch
　 　 　 　 　
1874 Naito-Shinjuku Branch Office, Industrial Encouragement
Department, Ministry of Home Affairs
Agricultural Training Institute Silkworm Diseases Experiment Section
1877 Experimental Tree Plantation, Ministry of Home Affairs ↓ ↓
1878 ↓ Komaba Agricultural School ↓
　 ↓ ↓ ↓
1881 Experimental Tree Plantation, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce Komaba Agricultural School, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce ↓
　 ↓ ↓ ↓
1882 Tokyo School of Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture
and Commerce		 ↓ ↓
1884 ↓ ↓ Laboratory of Silkworm Diseases, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce
1886 Tokyo School of Agriculture and Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce ↓
1887 ↓ Sericultural Laboratory
1890 Second Department, Agricultural College of Imperial University ↓
1891 ↓ Division of Sericulture,
Temporary Experiment, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce
1893 ↓ Sericultural Laboratory
1896 ↓ Sericultural Institute
1898 Pratical Department, Agricultural College of Imperial University ↓
1899 ↓ Tokyo Sericultural Institute
　 ↓ ↓
1914 ↓ Tokyo Imperial College of Sericulture
1919 Practical Department, Faculty of Agriculture of Tokyo Imperial University ↓
1935 Tokyo Imperial College of Agriculture and Forestry
[Transferred to Fuchu]		 ↓
1940 ↓ [Transferred to Koganei]
　 ↓ ↓
1944 Tokyo College of Agriculture and Forestry Tokyo Textile College
　 ↓ ↓
1949

TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY